Dear mentors, Some days ago I filed and ITP on the orphaned package gerris [1], and then I found I depends on the also orphaned gts [2], so I filed an ITP for this too. [1] http://gfs.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://gts.sourceforge.net/ I need *lots* of help here... This two packages come from the same upstream. For gerris, current debian versions is 0.6.0 and current *stable* from upstream is 0.9.2. For gts, current debian version is the same as current *stable* from upstream. The first thing I tried was to package the latest stable gerris using the latest stable gts. I doesn't work, lots of undefined symbols... Looking at the upstream website, I found that maintainer decided 2 years ago, to change his release policies, so he is not releasing stable tarballs anymore, and this two packages (and a new one, related) are available as daily snapshots. The upstream is very active, and latest changes on gerris just two weeks ago. Upstream provides debian/ubuntu snapshot packages, automatically generated. Surely, this packages needs some work to be compliant with debian policies, but I don't know if I should try to work on this with upstream, because this packages aren't stables anyway. I need some help with your opinions... Looking in popcon I found there are more gts users than gerris users (500+:25), so I tried some cleaning on the current (stable) gts package, anyway. This package includes: libgts-0.7-5, libgts-dev, and libgts-doc. After some work I finally got an *almost* clean lintian output. I said almost because I added some overrides from some manpages, being installed by the libgts-doc package. An I said manpages because I'm adding some as needed (Still working on it, dummy manpages for now). This package includes some binaries related with this library. This should be put alone in a fourth package, maybe gts-tools... I fact, this is an old bug: #465190. But I need help on this. How can I create this new target package move binaries and manpages to it? Anyway, should I work in this outdated stable? I uploaded a version of my actual gts package if someone wants to see it. As I said before, it's not ready yet. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gts - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gts/gts_0.7.6-2.dsc Thanks a lot! Ruben
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